Standards are vital but products should be affordable too: Sitharaman
The Dollar Business Bureau Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said on Monday that India has to take lead in making available the quality products to the world at reasonable prices, while emphasising that while standards are important to signify quality they are also made to be affordable for producers to follow and consumers to purchase. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s idea of ‘Zero Effect Zero Defect’ aims at exactly this,” she said while inaugurating the 4th National Standards Conclave. She stated that any strategy at national level for standards should have to include technology for disseminating any change in requirements of import in foreign nations so that India’s exporters would be well-prepared to face those hurdles, while adding that the dissemination should ...
'Growth in manufacturing sector can help overcome job challenges'
Source: PIB, Government of India Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) Secretary, Amitabh Kant at the Mega Conclave organized by Quality Council of India. Celebrating the 10th year of National Quality Conclaves, the Quality Council of India (QCI) on Friday organized a mega conclave in the national capital which was inaugurated by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) Secretary, Amitabh Kant. The theme of this year’s conclave is “Creating an Ecosystem for World Class Quality”. Delivering the keynote address, Amitabh Kant, said, "India needs to achieve 9 to 10% p.a. growth for three decades which would lead to transformation of the nation and poverty being eliminated." He cited the examples of countries like Japan, Korea, China who grew in ...
